Chapter 174: Playboy
Li Xingruo officially returned to school today and found her former roommate Li Yaqian, who was now a senior. She then heard a lot of rumors about Liang Fei.
Li Yaqian has a carefree and righteous personality. When Li Xingruo's family just got into trouble, she forced all the several thousand dollars she had saved from her part-time job on Li Xingruo, and also borrowed 10,000 yuan from her parents and gave it all to her.
She is warm-hearted and speaks very fast. Maybe before Li Xingruo understands the previous sentence, she has already finished the next one.
When Li Yaqian heard Li Xingruo mention Liang Fei, she immediately became alert considering the reputation of this entrepreneurial pioneer at Minghai University on campus .
"Speak!"
Li Yaqian held Li Xingruo's hand and said anxiously, "You silly engineering girl, it's okay if you let your feelings be toyed with, but you must not let your body be cheated, what on earth are you..."
Li Xingruo pursed her lips and walked slowly, perhaps because her feet were too heavy: "Really?"
"What?" Li Yaqian blinked, "What's true or false?"
"Nian Huaishi, is she Liang Fei's girlfriend?"
"Nonsense, how could I lie to you ?" Li Yaqian said unhappily, "It's because you weren't in school this year that their affair is known to everyone, even if I don't say it, but many people know about it."
Li Xingruo remained silent.
Li Yaqian was about to continue asking questions when she suddenly closed her eyes and quietly tugged at Li Xingruo.
Li Xingruo turned around, the breeze lifted her hair and blurred her vision. When she raised her hand to tuck her long hair behind her ears, she saw a graceful and beautiful girl standing in front of her.
Li Xingruo recognized this beautiful face, which had been on the official website of Minghai University for four years.
"Hello, my name is Nian Huaishi."
Nian Gao smiled and took the initiative to extend his hand: "What's your name?"
"Li Xingruo."
Seeing her friend looking timid, Li Yaqian took a step forward and protected Li Xingruo behind her.
Nian Gao smiled, signaling Li Yaqian not to be nervous, and looked at Li Xingruo: "You know Liang Fei, right?"
Li Xingruo nodded.
"Did he ever tell you about me?"
"No."
"So...what's your relationship with him?"
What is the relationship between me and Liang Fei?
Many images flashed through Li Xingruo's mind quickly , including the scenes of her being with Liang Fei. She thought carefully about every conversation and every contact between them.
After a long time, Li Xingruo shook his head and said honestly: "I, I don't know either."
ha……
"I see."
Nian Huaishi looked at Li Xingruo carefully. She was indeed an extremely beautiful girl. "Thank you. Sorry to bother you. Goodbye."
There was a special feeling of despair and fear lingering in her heart, making Nian Huaishi feel that her breathing began to become difficult. This feeling seemed to bring her back to the time when her parents quarreled and smashed the house.
But at that time, Nian Huaishi was only sixteen years old, but now it is different, she has grown up and can face all this alone.
After walking out of the school gate, a huge feeling of fatigue enveloped his whole body. Nian Huaishi hailed a taxi, gave an address, leaned against the car window, staring blankly at the hustle and bustle outside the glass with a stiff face.
The taxi stopped in front of a towering office building. Nian Huaishi took the elevator to the 18th floor, which was Nian Zheng’s company office.
Nian Zheng, who was in a meeting, learned from his secretary who came in to report that his daughter had suddenly arrived. He immediately ordered the meeting to be adjourned. He walked out with a smile on his face and saw his precious daughter smiling at him and shaking the two pieces of cake in her hands.
"Dad, will you eat cake with me?"
The smile on Nian Zheng's face suddenly froze, and he had a bad feeling in his heart. Ever since Nian Gao started learning folk dance, he seldom touched sweets in order to maintain his figure. Even if he liked them, he was extremely restrained on weekdays and only ate a small piece every week.
She had already eaten this week's share at home yesterday.
Did something happen?
Chairman's Office
The father and daughter sat face to face. Nian Gao scooped a large piece of cake with a spoon and put it into her mouth, feeling the rich aroma of the fresh cream. She raised her head and let out a long breath of satisfaction, wiped the cream from the corner of her mouth and put it back into her mouth, smiling playfully at her father.
Nian Zheng was a little embarrassed holding the cake: "Nannan, what unhappy thing happened?"
Nian Huaishi placed his hands on his legs, tightly gripping the spoon, his knuckles turning white, but his tone was still brisk: "Dad, there is something I have never dared to ask you."
Nian Zheng was like a primary school student being taught by his class teacher, sitting upright and serious: "You tell me, Dad will tell you everything."
Nian Huaishi asked: " You got together with Aunt Zheng only after your relationship with mom broke down and you had no feelings for each other anymore, right?"
Nian Zheng was stunned for a moment. This topic really shouldn't be a conversation between a father and a daughter. But seeing Nian Huaishi's fragile look as she tried hard to hold back her tears, Nian Zheng's heart almost broke. He lowered his head and said in a deep voice, "Yes, Dad is sorry for not being able to give you a happy and complete family, but..."
"I know, you can't force feelings."
Nian Zheng was nervous and asked, "Baby, what happened?"
Nian Huaishi took the last bite of cake, looked up at Nian Zheng, tilted her head, squinted her eyes and smiled, trying to be cute and docile: "It's okay, I'll leave first, see you at home in the evening."
Nian Zheng accompanied Nian Huaishi all the way to the elevator. He originally wanted the driver to take his daughter home, but Nian Huaishi refused. She still had to go to Lin Jingxin's place.
The elevator door slowly closed. Looking at Nian Zheng who had been waiting outside, Nian Huaishi suddenly raised his arms, made a big heart above his head, bent his legs and smiled, "Dad, I love you."
Nian Zheng paced back and forth in the office for a long time, frowning and saying nothing, which made Zheng Yu, who was sitting on the sofa, also feel uneasy.
"What did Nian Gao just say to you? What happened?"
Zheng Yu blinked quickly. She knew too well the position of Nian Gao in her husband's heart. If she could never see her daughter again in this life, or could hardly see her once for a year or two, Nian Zheng would probably go completely crazy.
Seeing that Nian Zheng was silent, Zheng Yu carefully suggested, "How about we give Nian Gao's boyfriend a call and ask him. Maybe the couple is having a conflict?"
"Go out first and leave me alone."
Nian Zheng sat back in the boss chair and ignored Zheng Yu's words.
At this time, Nian Gao was being taken by Lin Jingxin to see her customized sports car.
"Look, honey, mommy made some special requests to the manufacturer for the interior of the car. Try sitting in it."
The mother and daughter got into the luxurious sports car. Nian Gao held the steering wheel and made a "wuwuwu" sound to imitate the sound of the car engine, while turning the steering wheel.
Seeing that her daughter was in a good mood, Lin Jingxin took the opportunity to make a request: "Baby, come and stay with mom for a few days, okay? You can't be so partial, mom misses you too."
Nian Gao agreed immediately: "No problem, I'll come and accompany mom tomorrow."
"Oh, baby."
Lin Jingxin was overjoyed. She hugged the rice cake and kissed it several times. Suddenly, she felt something salty on her lips.
Looking at him in confusion, Nian Gao didn't know what happened and a tear slid down his chin.
After watching Nian Gao get into his car and be escorted away by his driver and secretary, Lin Jingxin immediately called her ex-husband.
"Something happened to my daughter. She cried, you know what? She cried!"
Nian Zheng's voice was low and he sounded irritable: "Nian Gao just came to my company and asked about the past between you and me. We also ate cake together."
"Cake?" Lin Jingxin frowned, "I've already eaten it this week. What happened? What happened? I was so scared by the rice cake that I didn't even dare to talk to her."
"Me too." Nian Zheng sighed heavily on the other end of the phone, "But she refused to say..."
Lin Jingxin asked: "What question did Nian Gao ask?"
"Ask, did we have an affair before our relationship broke down, or did we have an affair before our relationship broke down?"
Lin Jingxin was silent, and Nian Zheng was also silent.
After a long time, Lin Jingxin cried and said, "Nian Zheng, we had to divorce at that time. If we continued to live together, either you would become depressed or I would commit suicide. We really couldn't live like this anymore, so we divorced, right?"
Nian Zheng was silent for a while: "Yeah."
"But Nian Gao is like this... I, we are wrong, right? It must be us who are wrong."
"Um."
The poor former couple felt that they had done something wrong.
As the sun sets and night falls, Nian Gao calls Liang Fei: "Liang Fei, do you want to eat barbecue? I'll treat you. Do you remember the barbecue restaurant where I greeted you?"
Liang Fei didn't know the disaster was coming, and smiled playfully: "Oh, this is to relive the good times of first love, wait, brother will be there soon."
The commercial street is still prosperous and bustling with people. The aroma of barbecue can drift dozens of meters away. Students from nearby universities gather here, and the air is filled with laughter. Next to a lonely table sits a lonely rice cake.
After getting off the taxi, Liang Fei avoided the crowd and touched Nian Gao's pink chin: "Did you wait for a long time?"
"I guess you're the only boyfriend in the world who makes his girlfriend wait so long."
Nian Gao poked through the plastic film covering the plates and chopsticks, rinsed them with hot water, and handed them to Liang Fei. Then he looked at the bustling street scene with his eyes slightly narrowed, as if he was recalling something.
Liang Fei looked at Nian Gao strangely and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I was wondering..."
Nian Gao tilted his head and looked at Liang Fei: "If I hadn't run into you that night and I hadn't drunk, I probably wouldn't have taken the initiative to say hello, would we still be socializing?"
Liang Fei smiled and said, "Of course."
"Why?"
Because I'm reborn, there's no way I'll let go of the most beautiful girl in Ming University.
Liang Fei said: "Because I have liked you for a long time."
"No one would believe that."
Nian Gao peeled a crayfish, dipped it in the soup and put it into Liang Fei's bowl: "Liang Fei, I know I am a hypocritical person and it is easy for me to go to a dead end. When my parents divorced, I wondered if it was because I did something wrong or I was an incompetent daughter that made them feel unhappy in their marriage and finally parted ways."
"But later I found out that it had nothing to do with me. They loved me very much, but they didn't love each other anymore."
"That's why I feel relieved. After meeting you, I feel that it's nothing, because I have someone new to rely on."
"But if you like someone else, is it my fault?"
"That shouldn't be the case, right?"
Nian Gao lowered her head, tears streaming down her face. She sniffed and wiped her tears with a tissue. Then she raised her head and took a deep breath, waving her hands to fan herself, hoping to make the tears evaporate faster.
Finally, she looked at Liang Fei, stretched out a white index finger, wrinkled her nose, and snorted, "Playboy!"
"Liang Fei... I'll just be a lonely rice cake from now on."
"Making your rice cake, I'm so sad."
